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Gig Workers vs. Big Tech
Latino USA
English - November 19, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsSociety & Culture News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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How does technology affect labor? How are tech corporations like Uber and Lyft redefining what it means to be a worker in the United States?
California has been ground zero for cementing the “gig work” business model of these companies into law. A year ago this month, the state passed Proposition 22 to allow app-based firms like Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as contractors instead of employees.
In this episode of Latino USA we follow a group of drivers who are mobilizing across California – and using their own technology to take on Big Tech. Their fight is not only about their own labor protections as drivers, but a battle to prevent this labor model from spreading to other sectors of the U.S. economy.